Welcome, Aberdeen Quine! My father emigrated from Scotland to the U.S. A. as a young man. As a young single person I visited his relatives in Kincardineshire. When they spoke to each other and to their neighbors I was introduced to many words I'd never heard before, among them "quine" and "loon." My husband and I visited Scandinavia many years later, and I was surprised to hear many of those same words, although I don't recall hearing "quine" and "loon."

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